"Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
-Lord Acton

"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed."
-Ansel Adams

"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of government with the principles of Christianity."
-July 4, 1821, President John Adams

"The most revolutionary act you can commit in today's society is to be publicly happy."
-Patch Adams

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing."
-Edmund Burke

"The one concern of the Devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray."
- Samuel Chadwick

"Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life."
-Elmer Davis

"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without."
-Dr. James Dobson

"The mathematical precision of the universe reveals the mathematical mind of God."
-Albert Einstein

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

"Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men."

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."
-Robert Frost

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost

"A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges."
-Benny Green

"The fossil record is a graveyard of animals reminding us that God judges His creation."
- Ken Ham, Answers in Genesis

Katharine Hepburn
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything."

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."

"Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up."
-Evelyn Hendrickson

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded the freedom of worship here."
-Patrick Henry, signer of the Declaration of Independence

"People can't find God for the same reason a thief can't find a policeman."
- Dr. Kent Hovind

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
-Aldous Huxley

"The family is the cornerstone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child."
-Lyndon Baines Johnson

Immanuel Kant
"A human being needs three things to be happy: something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for."

"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
-Helen Keller

"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision."
-Helen Keller

C.S. Lewis
"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!' "

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest... "

"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' "

"We are what we believe we are."

"Now faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes."

"We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed."

"I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality."
-H. A. Overstreet

John Piper
"The universality of the moral law makes it possible for a pluralistic society to agree on enough to hold the nation together."

"We don't ever feel content when somebody is morally upright on their way to destruction."

"The reason this terrorized world exists is so that God might shout in our physical pain about the horror of sin. Diseases and deformities are God's portraits of what sin is like in the spiritual realm."

"Moses delivered the oppressed. Jesus delivers oppressed and oppressor."

"Investments are a lot like manure. Left in one pile it will begin to stink. Spread around it will grow things."
-Dave Ramsey

"There are two sources of unhappiness in life. One is not getting what you want; the other is getting it."
-George Bernard Shaw

"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high."
-Henry David Thoreau

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
-Henry David Thoreau

"I shall always be convinced that a watch proves a watch-maker, and that a universe proves a God."
-Voltaire

George Washington
"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

"Bless O Lord the whole race of mankind, and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy Son, Jesus Christ." (from W. Herbert Burk, B.D., Washington's Prayers, pp. 87-95)

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." (from Henry Halley, Halley's Bible Handbook, p.18)